Tradition 35 of 35
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Ancient and traditional religious systems, animist and polytheist belief, deities, sacred rites, mystery cults, and historical ritual practices that contextualize magical and esoteric traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 14,367
- Earliest
- 1100
- to 2026
- Read free
- 44%
- 6,362 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match4,877
- Metadata match260
- Query match9,225
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- God2.1K
- Animals1.9K
- Early works to 18001.8K
- Juvenile fiction907
- Rites and ceremonies891
- History810
- Juvenile literature779
- Providence and government of God752
- Sermons669
- Funeral rites and ceremonies624
- Conduct of life615
- Religion557
- Bible479
- Children471
- Animal welfare462
- Christianity424
- animal magnetism417
- Children's stories380
- Fiction360
- Christian life357
- Natural history339
- Attributes334
- Zoology321
- Cult314
Top languages
- English7,932 · 55%
- German1,498 · 10%
- French1,335 · 9%
- Latin1,255 · 9%
- Italian437 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Harrison Weir40 in this tradition46 books
- Religious Tract Society32 in this tradition66 books
- France. Convention nationale31 books
- Augustine of Hippo26 in this tradition46 books
- Madeline Leslie25 in this tradition26 books
- Samuel G. Goodrich24 in this tradition34 books
- Franz Anton Mesmer23 in this tradition49 books
- Catholic Church22 in this tradition50 books
- Maximillien De Lafayette22 in this tradition24 books
- Martin Luther21 in this tradition129 books
- François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon21 in this tradition49 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg20 in this tradition84 books
14,367 books
Little things for little folks
Mary Jane Phillips
1860
Lost in Ceylon
William Dalton
1861
Lost in the Lebanon
Mary Charlotte Yonge
1870
Lottie Eames
Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey
1874
Lotus Bay
Laura D. Nichols, Edmund Henry Garrett, D. Lothrop & Company
1889
Louisa's tenderness to the little birds, in winter
Arnaud Berquin
1835
Lucy Dunlevy
S. S. Egliseau
1856
Lydekker's natural history
1893
M'Carty's American primer
Juvenile Collection
1828
Madeline
Jacob Abbott
1857
Maggie and the sparrows
M. A. H
1868
Mamma's gift book
Pease
1854
March 31.
1889
Marino Falieri, the doge of Venice
Bazin Brown
1855
Mary Howitt's illustrated library for the young
Mary Botham Howitt
1856
Mary Howitt's instructive stories for young people
Mary Botham Howitt
1872
Mary's visit to the gold fields
Charlotte O'Brien
1858
Master Henry's rabbit ; The bees ; and, The faithful dog
Mary Martha Sherwood
1855
Master Tom's transformation
Lorenz Frølich
1870
Maternal instruction, or, Family conversations, on moral and entertaining subjects
Elizabeth Helme, William Rollinson
1804
Meditations upon the attributes of God and the nature of man.
1770
Memoirs of Bob the spotted terrier
Harrison Weir
1860
Memoirs of my dog
Ingram Cobbin
1840
Men of different countries
Celestia Ambler
1824